Must-Prepare Topics for Novel

TOM JONES (1749) by HENRY FIELDING (1707-1754)

1. A Social Document / A Picaresque Novel
2. Character Sketch of Tom Jones
3. Plot Construction
4. A Comic Epic in Prose / Humorous Elements
5. Fielding's Concept of Morality
6. Characterization
7. Realism
8. Henry Fielding, a Novelist

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (1813) by JANE AUSTEN (1775-1817)

1. Theme of Marriage and Love
2. Character Sketches of Elizabeth and Darcy
3. Jane Austen's Limited World
4. Plot Construction
5. Title of the Novel
6. Irony
7. Jane Austen, a Novelist

GREAT EXPECTATIONS (1861) by CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870)

1. Elements of Pathos and Melodrama
2. Characterization
3. Dickens’s Humor
4. Portrayal of Pip / Pip's Moral Development
5. Corrupting Influence of Money
6. Charles Dickens, a Novelist

MIDDLE MARCH (1871) by GEORGE ELIOT (1819-1880)

1. A Social Document/ A Landscape Of Opinion
2. Title of The Novel
3. Various Themes in The Novel
4. Plot Construction
5. George Eliot, a Novelist
6. An Assessment of Victorian Novel

THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE (1878) by THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)

1. The Role of Egdon Heath / Tragic Background of the Novel
2. Eustacia Vye, a Tragic Heroine
3. Role of Chance and Fate / Hardy's Philosophy of Life
4. Thomas Hardy, a Novelist

A PASSAGE TO INDIA (1924) by E.M.FORSTER (1879-1970)

1. Plot Construction
2. Title of the Novel
3. Dr. Aziz, A Representative of Indian Sentiments
4. British-Indian Relationship/ Theme of Separation/ Personal Relationship
5. Symbolism

TO THE LIGHT HOUSE (1927) by VIRGINIA WOOLF (1882-1941)

1. Symbolism
2. A Character Sketch of Mrs. Ramsay
3. Role of Lily Briscoe
4. Stream of Consciousness Technique
5. The Art of Virginia Wolf / As a Novelist

LORD OF THE FLIES (1954) by WILLIAM GOLDING (1911-1993)

1. Symbolism
2. Theme of Good and Evil / Jack vs Ralph
3. Elements of Pathos and Tragedy

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